From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 19 17:55:32 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA5A63F6 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 17:55:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9050C1C14 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 17:55:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Julian-MBP3.local (ppp121-45-232-70.lns20.per1.internode.on.net [121.45.232.70]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s3JHtR3b032235 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:55:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <5352B889.9050608@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 01:55:21 +0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rainer Duffner , Outback Dingo Subject: Re: What happened with the GlusterFS port? References: <28234312-7982-49F5-83FD-865649AA9CCB@ultra-secure.de> <1397850220.58880.16.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> <7FAD7618-593D-4797-9EE9-BA36A87CE79B@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <7FAD7618-593D-4797-9EE9-BA36A87CE79B@ultra-secure.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: FreeBSD FS X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 17:55:32 -0000 On 4/19/14, 4:43 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am 18.04.2014 um 21:51 schrieb Outback Dingo : > >> >> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Sean Bruno wrote: >> On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 21:30 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> does anybody know where the effort to port GluserFS to FreeBSD went? >>> >>> There’s this (very) outdated wiki-page: >>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/GlusterFS >>> >>> and there’s the SoC project: >>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2013/GlusterFSport >>> >>> But nothing seems to have happened after it was finished. >> >> The port made decent progress over the GSOC period, but no, it never >> gained any traction to end up in the ports collection. >> >> > > That is very unfortunate. > > > >> not to hijack the thread but, glusters ancient, use riak-cs, or swift, or port leofs >> >> > > Currently, the unavailability of GlusterFS in FreeBSD (vs. the availability in Linux) is sort of a deal-breaker for some projects here. > > There are, regrettably, a large number of legacy applications the rely on a traditional filesystem. > An equally large number of customers continue to rely on these same applications, for the foreseeable future (and they pay us to run the stuff). > Traditionally, I would have just suggested a ZFS NFS fileserver - but it adds a single point of failure, manual failover with ZFS sends/HAST etc. hey check out panzura's product.. (disclaimer: I work there) > > GlusterFS would eliminate this (in situations where the customer needs a number of servers anyway). > > I guess, it won’t happen until somebody is paid to do it (SoC sort of proofed that) - directly or indirectly. > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >